Unknown: Now let's go through working with labels in Gmail. So
labels are similar to folders, you'll see them here on the left
hand side. And they pretty much act the same way, as folders do,
but with some extra features. So if you're from Outlook, you
would be used to filing your emails from the inbox into a
specific folder. How labels are different in Gmail, is that you
can actually organize your emails. And you can add one
email to multiple labels. So let me show you how this is done.
This one here already has an urgent label and we're going to
select it here on the left, we're going to go to the label
button here. And I'm also going to put a follow up label on it
out, press apply. So now you can see that it's got the follow up
label to urgent label, and it's also in my inbox. So this is
very different from Outlook, because for example, let's go
into this email here. In Outlook, you would be used to
using this button, which is the move to button that moves the
email out of the inbox into another folder or label. So if I
move this one, and click Move to follow up, that takes it out of
the inbox and puts it into the follow up. Which is there, the
Google one. So that's the key difference between folders from
Outlook and labels in Gmail, it's that, yes, you can use them
both to keep your inbox organized. But you can apply
more than one label to a single message. So that's how to use
them. Let's talk about how to create the labels. If you're in
your main inbox, the fastest way to do this is on the left hand
side, click More and then go down to create new label. Let me
create one called to do, I'm going to best create, and then
that pops up automatically on the left hand side. If you hover
over it, you can click on these little three dots here. And you
can also choose to add colors. I'm going to click on this icon
here. Let's do one more. So create new label. This time,
we're going to make it choice to do and this option here allows
you to create sub labels. So nested label under Select a
parent to do so this means the choice to do is going to be
under the normal to do list. And you can see it pop up here as
well. Let's change the color one more time by clicking on these
three dots. And let's make this one yellow. Alright, so that's a
bit about how to create the labels. You can also do the same
thing when you're in an email. So let's go into this one here.
And you can see the icons pop up here too. So again, you can move
this email from the inbox out of the inbox and into another
label. Or you can click on label. And let's put this one in
the choice to do it's in the inbox and enjoys to do. Let's
also make it urgent. And let's put the follow up. And let's
press apply. And you'll be able to see all the different labels
that the email is currently in at the top here. And from the
inbox view, which is great as well. And to remove a label, you
simply click this crosshair and take them off, I'm just going to
leave it back in the inbox where it was before. Okay, so to
manage your label list, all you do is go down to manage labels
on the bottom of the left hand side, you might need to click
more if you if you can't see this full option, go down and
click More and then manage labels. And from here, it takes
you into the settings of Gmail. So the other way to get to this
page is to go from the settings we'll go to settings and then
click on the labels tab, which is the second one across from
general. If you scroll down here, you'll be able to see a
list of all the different labels that you've made. So these
correspond with the ones on the left and you can choose to hide
them if you want. So if I change it from show to hide, you'll be
able to see these ones disappear on the left let's have a go now.
follow ups disappear, newsletters to do an urgent so
now they're gone from the left list on the left. There's
another option to show if unread. So if a new email comes
in to that label, it'll pop up there again. But for now, let's
put them back on do To show so you can see them all on the left
hand side.
So that's the basics of how to use labels in Gmail. So it might
be a little bit tricky at first to get your head around it. But
once you do, it's actually a really powerful tool to keep
your inbox really neat and tidy and easy to manage. Good luck
with the labels. If
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